Kevin_O_Connor
12 years agoLevel 4
Remote Site backups with Encryption
Hi,
We have a requirement to backup a set of servers in remote sites and we've tested a backup solution outlined below which works pretty well but I know it'll only be a matter of time before someone asks about encryption.
- Backing up to MSDP on the server locally and using SLP to replicate the images to a media server in our Datacentre.
- The Master server is Windows 2008 as are the remote servers, all running 7.5.0.6. Flat file backups, no DB's.
So I'm right in saying, if we wanted to enable Encryption before the data was sent up to the DC
- We'd need to disable Accelerator and Client Side Dedupe.
- We'd need to rethink the MSDP and use Basic Disk.
In other words it would mean a complete redesign of the solution ?
Is there anything I'm missing ? We need to be able to backup these servers while reducing the amount of data transferred across the line because unfortunately the line used is sometimes only a 2MB line (currently works though).
Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks
Kevin
- I think it is th eother way - once the storage server is setup then everything gets encrypted If you dont want one client to be encrypted then set its LOCAL_SETTINGS to 1 so that it does not have to obey the storage server and that client then has the choice of whether to use encryption or not